Ghostty not updating via homebrew

[richstokes]

I installed via brew, but it shows no updates, even though a ghostty dialog popped up saying there was a new version. It would be good if brew could totally manage the lifecycle of this app

[WardsParadox]

Cask was updated approx 20 hrs ago.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/87425cdf81bfbd6be53bc284cd3554caaec09ed2/Casks/g/ghostty.rb

Brew sees the update here. Try: brew update && brew info ghostty

[richstokes]

Interesting:

brew update && brew info ghostty
==> Updating Homebrew...
Already up-to-date.
==> ghostty: 1.1.0 (auto_updates)
https://ghostty.org/
Installed
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/ghostty/1.0.1 (45.7MB)
  Installed using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2025-01-03 at 18:08:07
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/g/ghostty.rb
==> Name
Ghostty
==> Description
Terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration
==> Artifacts
Ghostty.app (App)
/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/MacOS/ghostty (Binary)
/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/bash-completion/completions/ghostty.bash -> /opt/homebrew/etc/bash_completion.d/ghostty (Binary)
/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/fish/vendor_completions.d/ghostty.fish -> /opt/homebrew/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/ghostty.fish (Binary)
/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/zsh/site-functions/_ghostty -> /opt/homebrew/share/zsh/site-functions/_ghostty (Binary)
/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/man/man1/ghostty.1 (Manpage)
/Applications/Ghostty.app/Contents/Resources/man/man5/ghostty.5 (Manpage)
==> Analytics
install: 38,161 (30 days), 71,070 (90 days), 71,070 (365 days)

But doing brew upgrade it didn't upgrade it. And when I open Ghostty its still on:

[richstokes]

Then I did

brew install ghostty
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
ghostty 1.0.1 -> 1.1.0
==> Upgrading ghostty
==> Downloading https://release.files.ghostty.org/1.1.0/Ghostty.dmg
#################################################################################################### 100.0%
==> Backing App 'Ghostty.app' up to '/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/ghostty/1.0.1/Ghostty.app'
==> Removing App '/Applications/Ghostty.app'
==> Unlinking Binary '/opt/homebrew/bin/ghostty'
==> Unlinking Binary '/opt/homebrew/etc/bash_completion.d/ghostty'
==> Unlinking Binary '/opt/homebrew/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/ghostty.fish'
==> Unlinking Binary '/opt/homebrew/share/zsh/site-functions/_ghostty'
==> Unlinking Manpage '/opt/homebrew/share/man/man1/ghostty.1'
==> Unlinking Manpage '/opt/homebrew/share/man/man5/ghostty.5'
==> Moving App 'Ghostty.app' to '/Applications/Ghostty.app'
==> Linking Binary 'ghostty' to '/opt/homebrew/bin/ghostty'
==> Linking Binary 'ghostty.bash' to '/opt/homebrew/etc/bash_completion.d/ghostty'
==> Linking Binary 'ghostty.fish' to '/opt/homebrew/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/ghostty.fish'
==> Linking Binary '_ghostty' to '/opt/homebrew/share/zsh/site-functions/_ghostty'
==> Linking Manpage 'ghostty.1' to '/opt/homebrew/share/man/man1/ghostty.1'
==> Linking Manpage 'ghostty.5' to '/opt/homebrew/share/man/man5/ghostty.5'
==> Purging files for version 1.0.1 of Cask ghostty
🍺  ghostty was successfully upgraded!

and that actually did upgrade it. weird.

[WardsParadox]

Not sure. Tbh this is why I won't use brew for casks. Too much weirdness and permission quarks.

[00-kat]

FWIW the Homebrew cask is not an official distribution and any bugs with it are unlikely to be Ghostty bugs.

[richstokes]

Ahhh. Didn't realize that. No worries.